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Mineral Specimens with Lepidolite
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12.5 x 12.2 x 7 cm. Excellent and classic Tourmaline from certainly the most famous Tourmaline locality in the United States, and justifiably so. This 6 cm beauty grades from pink to green, has excellent luster, fine gemminess, and a good termination. As expected in most tourmalines, there is a stress fracture in the lower half, and a few minor dings along the top edge. Associated with large Quartz crystals, Albite, and Lepidolite, this is a distinctive specimen from a highly desirable locality.
13 x 7.2 x 6.3 cm. Classic Afghani Kunzite, like a chisel point, very sharp. It has great size (13 cm) and form, very good luster, and an attractive color that ranges from pink along the outside to a light green near the core. The matrix association makes the piece more valuable and rarer than a relatively common single would be, and the sharp termination adds appeal.
12.7 x 10.1 x 7.7 cm. A large, rich, very impressive Himalaya Mine combo specimen! What you have here is a fine balance of sharp quartz crystals, blooms of lavender lepidolite, and multicolored tourmaline. There are two intergrown tourmalines at the top of the specimen, with two intact terminations. The larger one measures about 2 cm across the termination, and is dark green. The other is a VERY gemmy pink and green (contacted on the back end). The quartz crystals are not just accessories here but really add a lot, with good luster, sharpness and gemminess.
5.2 x 4.5 x 3.2 cm. A STRIKING, frosted and etched, gemmy, ice-blue topaz crystal beautifully mounted atop sparkly, pastel-pink lepidolite crystals from the recent, small find at world famous Virgem da Lapa, Brazil. The sharp, icicle-like points crowning the crystal are very distinctive.
4.2 x 3.6 x 2.7 cm. A very gemmy and lustrous, sherry-colored tourmaline with a green termination aesthetically perched on the side of a gem, lavender lepidolite crystal, which is altering to feldspar. The tourmaline is pristine. The 1.1 cm, gem, green tourmaline pencil on the feldspar termination is a super accent. RARELY do you see gemmy tourmalines of this quality available from Capelinha, which is renowned for its titanite crystals.
4.2 x 3.6 x 1.2 cm, 3.8 x 3.7 x 2.3 cm. Two specimens of Himalaya Mine lepidolite with very different forms - one with translucent lavender crystals piled up in columns, and the other with densely-packed, broad sheets in the more familiar mica form. Ex. Tim Sherburn Collection.
8.7 x 7.5 x 5.6 cm. This massive rock of solid lepidolite is classic Pala material: it features radial bursts of translucent pink crystals of tourmaline, embedded in the matrix. There are dozens of crystals here, measuring to two centimeters. This rich specimen came out of an old collection - it is hard to obtain this today, and although massive and embedded, they make for very pretty pieces nonetheless.
3.2 x 2.4 x 1.8 cm. A UNIQUE and SUPERB pseudomorph from the famous Gillette Quarry of a 1.9 cm, lustrous and translucent, golden-amber, doubly terminated lepidolite after a topaz crystal and nicely embedded in gemmy muscovite, which is accented with pink lepidolite. This rare and excellent specimen is from the Jarnot Collection, very well-known Connecticut specialists.
10.5 x 9.0 x 4.8 cm. A STRIKING and VERY SHOWY CABINET specimen of pearlescent, lilac, orbicular lepidolite from Minas Gerais, Brazil. The scattered bit of bladed albite is a very nice accent and contrast. This beautiful piece is dramatically displayable from both sides and many angles. Lepidolite of this size, variety and quality is SELDOM available.
3.2 x 2.6 x 2.1 cm. A beautifully gemmy and unusually shaped green tourmaline crystal from a BRAND NEW LOCALITY and FIND in Brazil - the Teixerinha Mine in Minas Gerais. The highly lustrous and striated crystal is flattened, curved and bulgy. The steeply pyramidal terminations are frosted. Hidden on the curved back at the base is a purple lepidolite crystal cluster!
6.1 x 4.9 x 3.1 cm. A specimen of YELLOW lepidolite, from an exciting new find in Brazil! The translucent crystals on these specimens, which of course are mica and thus very thin sheets, are packed so densely that the specimens look to be almost a solid translucent yellow mineral, except for the thin crystal edges at the surface that show that what you are really looking at are the edges of thousands of tightly packed sheety crystals. Beautiful stuff!
12.6 x 9.1 x 5.2 cm. This large matrix is shot through with opaque crystals of rubellite tourmaline of a deep salmon-red color, still embedded in the host matrix of massive lepidolite in which they formed. There are dozens of crystals here! It is most interesting to see tourmaline crystals in situ, particularly when the specimen is this rich and from a classic locality! This material historically was very prized as carving rough as far back as the early 1900s and much was sold to China as well as to gift shops and the like in the US. Now, it is hard to come by. Though massive, this is a good example of classic old San Diego commercial carving rough.
3.8 x 1.6 x 1.1 cm. A beautifully gemmy green tourmaline crystal from a BRAND NEW LOCALITY and FIND in Brazil - the Teixerinha Mine in Minas Gerais. The highly lustrous pencil tourmaline is aesthetically wrapped in lustrous, off-white, tabular lepidolite crystals. The crystal has a pleasing emerald-green color, which the UNRETOUCHED backlit photo highlights.
10.3 x 4.6 x 3.2 cm. A UNIQUE and RARE CABINET combination specimen from the Elizabeth R. Mine on Chief Mountain. A sharp, 1.7 cm, lustrous, dark gray tantalite crystal rests on quartz-rich matrix covered with lepidolite and smoky quartz crystals. The large, translucent smoky is 3.5 cm and has an undamaged, frosted termination. I have never seen an Elizabeth R. specimen of this rare combination, especially the large tantalite! The back has been sawed to enhance display. Ex. Chris Korpi Collection.
4.2 x 3.5 x 3.5 cm. An excellent, very sculptural combination piece from the late 80’s-early 90’s. The Lepidolites and Albites are very well-formed, and the beautiful, gemmy, and lustrous Tourmaline is 1.6 cm long. The aesthetics of the way the Tourmaline nestles among the other minerals is terrific.
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